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PuggleContributor
Hello. After 40+ years of thinking I was insane, yesterday my psych confirmed it's actually rapid cycling bipolar 2. The overwhelming emotion I feel though is grief for all the years I was so afraid. It will pass, I know, but I needed to tell someone safe. Thank you for listening x
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kenny66Senior Contributor
I led a pretty weird existance until I was told I had schizophrenia and treated. I dont have any memories of my life before 2006 when I had a great big head injury by getting assaulted.
I am told by a couple of friends from then I was smart but self distructive and basically wasted those years. So I only know from then until now, I guess I cant regret those years because I dont know them.
But in the 8 years since, I lost most of them because i didnt understand what was happening to me. I have caught up on when I was a kid by some cousins I didnt know existed. My life then was pretty terrible.
But I look to going forward not backward and hope my life from now until I get older might be ok.
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BatGuanoSenior Contributor
Hello Puggle,
That was what Oscar Wilde called homosexuality, famously. But I think that there's a lot of fear and judgement around Mental Illness too.
The truth is that most people are whacko at some time. The lucky ones are those of us who realise it. Then we can do something about it.
Welcome to the Zoo, friend.
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CherryBombSenior Contributor
Aww Puggle,
If you accept cyber cuddles, I'm sending one to you.
You're insightful in knowing that this unpleasant state will pass, but you're right, it's not a nice place to be. Sounds like you've been here before, how you have you managed it in the past?
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